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Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women.

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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20010101
Author:Beer, Janet

 
Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women. 
By Margit Stange. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University 
Press. 1998. x+771 pp. [pound]27. 

This is a book that divides into two distinct halves. The first is a fairly conventional but engaging and fluently written account of work by Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton, focusing on their treatment of 'the discourse of the exchange of woman' (p. 4) specifically in The Awakening and in The House of Mirth and other stories by Wharton. The second half looks in some detail at narratives of white slavery ...

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